Coffee Praline Cheesecake

Name: Coffee Praline Cheesecake
Prep time: 4 h 50 min
Cook time: 4 h 50 min
Total time: 4 h 50 min
Yield: 50
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 177 milliliters firmly packed brown sugar; 237 milliliters BREAKSTONES or KNUDSEN Sour Cream; 680 grams pkg. each) PHILADELPHIA Cream Cheese, softened; 4 eggs; 237 milliliters butterscotch ice cream topping; 2 teaspoons MAXWELL HOUSE Instant Coffee, divided; 59 milliliters (1/2 stick) margarine or butter, melted; 237 milliliters PLANTERS Pecan Halves, divided; 27 squares shortbread cookies, finely crushed (about 2 cups crumbs); 1 teaspoon vanilla; 1 Tbsp hot water

This recipe serves 50. One serving contains 146 calories, 2g of protein, and 11g of fat. A mixture of vanilla, shortbread cookies, margarine, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so delicious. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 4 hours and 50 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350F. Chop 1/4 cup of the pecans; mix with shortbread crumbs and margarine. Press firmly onto bottom and 1 inch up side of 9-inch springform pan; refrigerate until ready to use. Beat cream cheese and sugar in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until well blended.

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Cream Cheese

Shortbread Cookies

Margarine

Pecans

Sugar

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Hand Mixer

Springform Pan

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Oven

Add sour cream, 1 tsp. of the coffee granules and the vanilla; mix well.

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Instant Coffee

Sour Cream

Vanilla

Add eggs, 1 at a time, mixing on low speed after each addition just until blended.

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Egg

Pour into crust.

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Crust

Bake 1 hour. Turn oven off; leave cheesecake in oven 30 min.

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Oven

Remove cheesecake from oven. Run knife or metal spatula around rim of pan to loosen cake; cool before removing rim of pan. Arrange 12 of the pecan halves around outside edge of cheesecake. Refrigerate at least 3 hours or overnight.

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Pecan Halves

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Spatula

Knife

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Frying Pan

Dissolve remaining 1 tsp. coffee granules in hot water just before serving cheesecake.

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Instant Coffee

Water

Mix with butterscotch topping in small saucepan; cook on medium-low heat until heated through, stirring frequently. Stir in remaining pecan halves. Spoon over individual servings of cheesecake. Store leftover cheesecake and sauce separately in refrigerator.

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Butterscotch Sauce